Research Systems, Inc.

Presentation Outline

The Company

IDL Target Markets

Some RSI Customers

Research Systems’ Products

IDL Overview

What is IDL?

The Benefits of IDL

IDL is a Language

IDL is Array-Oriented

IDL is Portable

IDL is Open

IDL Functionality Overview

2D Graphics

Integrated Mapping

IDL Map Projections

Surface Plots

3D Graphics

Image Processing

Fast & Easy Image Processing

Mathematics

Statistics

On-line Help

Integrated Development Tools

GUI Toolkit

Callable IDL

Application Distribution

IDL Features Recap

Summary

IDL is just a tool (saw)
UNIX is just a tool (hammer)

IDL is great at...

IDL is not the best at...

Personal Biases

For those who can’t wait